@jready,
Hi Jennifer. I have just now seen your post, and I want to send you a quick reply before I sign off for the night.

12 years ago, I was in ICU with acute kidney failure. Your story sound so much like what I went thru, even though for a different condition. I also began at the Emergency Department, then ambulance ride to larger regional hospital with acute kidney failure (while I was waiting for a liver transplant. After 6 days I was flown to the Mayo Clinic where I was hospitalized for 2 more weeks. I had gaps in memory, and I was so confused that I had to ask my husband to fill in what had occurred. I cried when he told me all that had been going on. But it was still frustrating and confusing because he saw it from a different view point; he did not undergo the tests that, even to this day. are a mystery. But that was 12 years ago and it does not disturb me any more because newer memories have taken priority in my mind.
I drove my husband crazy with questions, but I needed to get some order for my confusion. Was someone with you who could fill-in the blanks? That might be a beginning to making some order out of the events that occurred.

Jennifer, I am happy that you are here. You are not alone, and you are not the only person to have these feelings. I look forward to chatting with you about some of your experiences and my similar experiences.
Rosemary